Andrew Pardew risks Toon fury

FURY has erupted on Tyneside as Alan Pardew was named Newcastle manager.

Pardew was named Newcastle manager today amid growing anger among supporters that the club have appointed a casino crony of gambling-mad owner Mike Ashley.

Pardew knows both Llambias and Ashley through their mutual fondness for London casinos.

His appointment was greeted with rage by the vast majority of fans, who feel Pardew’s modest achievements in management hardly qualify him to take over from the popular Chris Hughton, who was sacked on Monday.

Steve Wraith, of Toon Talk fanzine, said: “It is a desperate measure by an increasingly desperate board. He is taking on a job that, until Hughton’s appointment, had been a poisoned chalice for 10 years.”